Inmates share a cell on the 3000 level of the Men's Central Jail, which is where many of the most dangerous and violent detainees are housed. Sheriff Lee Baca held a press conference at the jail on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2012, to address the findings of a Citizen's Commission report on violence against inmates by deputies working at the downtown facility.

A Mexican cowboy known as a Charro leads a riderless horse during the funeral for Amelio Franco, the owner of two popular Los Angeles clubs and the Rancho Farallon riding stables. Franco also was well known as an actor who played supporting roles in movies about the Mexican drug trade.

The parched carcass of a tilapia is half buried in the dried bones and scales of millions of other tilapia that have died and washed ashore at the Salton Sea State Recreation Area over the last decade. The stagnant lake is prone to algal blooms that consume the lake's oxygen and result in massive fish die-offs.

Photographer’s tip sheet: Get close

If you shoot with a wide-angle lens, you simply must get close to your subjects. If not, the spatial relationships between those subjects tend to be awkward and the dead space between you and them vast. Visual impact is all about filling the frame. So unless you can hear your subjects breathe, you might want to get closer. Words to remember: “Tight is right.”